Things have been changing at Chez Sempstress. Well, you win some, you lose some. Last fall I promised mom she…
How to Not Get Tangled Threads on the Back of Your Embroidery
Most fun thing to ever happen to embroidery: that rat’s nest of tangly-tangly threads on the back of your work…
A Few Cutting Remarks
Scissors don’t come with directions. Much like a screwdriver (the mechanical kind), they are supposedly a tool so simple that…
How (not to) Make a Carmen Miranda Hat/Costume Thing
So my sister has a Halloween party every year. Every year there is a theme. This year’s theme was “Hollywood…
Embroidery Hack
So I’ve been doing a little embroidery lately (which is an odd statement from She Who Doth Not Embroider, but…
How Pants Work
Ever wondered how, exactly, pants work*? What kind of crazy pattern-making sorcery goes into drafting a pant? If you’ve ever…
Printer Friendly Version of the Mathless Draft
This is a more work-table friendly version of my mathless draft. There’s nothing actually new here; it’s just a more…
Musings on Haute Couture
So I found this fabulous BBC documentary on the crazy secret world of Haute Couture: It goes into more than…
Mathless Draft to Skirt Block
You probably won’t finish this demo with an overwhelming sense of “Whoa! *Mind*blown*,” but I thought I’d put this out…
And Then I Made It Weird….
Aaaaaactually, it’s been on display since November, which brings me to the only resolution I wrote down for 2016: blog…